Girls Growth & Development (GIGDEV)

GIGDEV offers an integrated approach towards achieving self reliance for adolescent girls at risk for exploitation by offering lessons financial literacy, leadership, and health into their vocational training program. In addition to their vocational training program, GIGDEV also runs an early childhood education program as well as an advocacy and mobile outreach program on reproductive health, good governance, and human rights.

With their first EMpower grant, GIGDEV is training young women at risk for economic migration with vocational skills, small business management, and functional literacy as well as providing them with mentors and guidance on issues affecting them such as domestic violence and sexual and reproductive health.